Music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church, used with permission. Next on our literary excursion of the field of autonomous beings, we look at Blade Runner (1982) (replicants), and the cowardly computer HAL from 2001 (A Space Odyssey - 1968)I wish to acknowledge Jerome George for the LinkedIn post of January 3, 2026. "Asimov introduced his famous Three Laws of Robotics in the 1942 short story 'Runaround,' creating what would become the ethical cornerstone of robotics discourse for decades."